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Item Details
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COLONIZING HAWAI'I
THE CULTURAL POWER OF LAW |
| By: |
Sally Engle Merry |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£49.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691009317 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691009315 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 January, 2000 |
| Series: |
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History |
| Pages: |
364 |
| Description: |
How does law transform family, sexuality, and community, in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process. This book examines 100 years of court records from a small Hawai`ian town, highlighting changes in every day social life, and the cultural power of law. |
| Synopsis: |
How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i. |
| Illustrations: |
23 halftones 1 map 4 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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